Steve Parish: Crystal Palace chairman says Project Restart may fail

Crystal Palace’s remaining match used to be a 1-0 dwelling preserve over Watford on 7 March

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says that unless Premier League clubs can procure a potential to stage fits at this time, it might probably perchance presumably also very successfully be a “very, very extended length” before the high flight returns.

Talking on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Present, Parish said that preliminary plans for league fits to be staged again from June might presumably also honest level to unfeasible.

“We might presumably be derelict in our accountability if we didn’t procure a potential to make a selection out a glimpse at and lift the game back,” he said.

Parish will likely be fragment of a meeting of Premier League membership officials on Monday the place discussions will continue over how they might presumably salvage their groups back on the pitch.

In Germany, the place the high two divisions are space to restart on 16 Can also, 2d-tier side Dinamo Dresden hang positioned their total squad and instructing workers into isolation for 2 weeks aftertwo gamers examined obvious for coronavirus.

A earlier wave of 1,724 tests performed remaining week by the Bundesliga returned 10 obvious results.

“The German example might presumably provide a blueprint for us and clearly we can glimpse among the early challenges,” added Parish.

“They might presumably also honest level to insurmountable, however the danger for us is that if they level to insurmountable now then we might presumably also very successfully be in for a in truth, very extended length of no longer being ready to play and that has big ramifications for the game.”

Parish believes that deciding the final league positions on the pitch, in resolution to relying on components per sport or taking the most up-to-date desk because the final , is preferable, even though stipulations are far from very finest.

“Deciding it competitively might presumably be finest, obviously if we can play in our own stadiums that can perchance presumably successfully be preferable for each person, however for the moment that pronounce is with authorities and the authorities and no longer with us,” he said.

“The police hang made it sure that they don’t think they’re going to police every ground.

“I even hang big sympathy with [Watford chief executive ] Scott Duxbury’s place. Having said that, I feel it might probably perchance presumably also honest successfully level to to be the least worst chance.

“There are no longer any easy solutions, we must work thru it as a collective and I feel we can come out with a consensus in the live.”

Parish furthermore underlined that he and his colleagues are retaining football in perspective at some stage in a virus in which, as of 11:30 BST on 10 Can also, no longer no longer as much as 31,587 people hang died after attempting out obvious for coronavirus in the United Kingdom.

“Soccer is entirely unimportant in the context of the public successfully being disaster, that has to return first,” he said.

“We’re going to procure a device to desire assurances as clubs that we’re no longer taking resources far from someone. We merely can’t make a selection tests far from someone who is more requisite than us.

“Now we hang been informed thus far that these are non-public services that are no longer being utilised for this order public successfully being disaster. We’re going to procure a device to all desire more readability on that, it’s important that that is the case.”